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Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically. Works of ele
A Song dynasty (c. 1100) edition of the I Ching, a non-linear text used for divination.
In 1959, Theo Lutz wrote a poetry generator for the Z22 computer. This photo shows a museum visitor sitting at the teletype that would have printed out poems.
Stuart Moulthrop's hypertext fiction Victory Garden (1992) is shown here in two versions: the original, published on floppy disks to be read on a computer, and the 2009 version that was reprogrammed to work on an iPad. This display was part of an exhibition curated by Dene Grigar for the ACM Hypertext conference in 2023.
Eastgate Systems sold works of hypertext fiction on diskettes by mail order.